---
name: "John C. Donkin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-donkin"
fi1m_id: "john-donkin"
imdb_id: "nm0232561"
tmdb_id: 5718
wikidata_id: "Q22115047"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T03:57:54.030124+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John C. Donkin

## Identity

John C. Donkin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-donkin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-donkin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0232561
- **TMDB ID:** 5718
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22115047
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115047, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5718

Producer. Born 1 January 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1961
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Also known as:** John Donkin
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (1), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115047, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5718

## Coming up

- *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027-02-03), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Rio*](https://film.one/film/rio.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

John C. Donkin is an American producer and director. He began his career in computer animation in 1983, studying at the Computer Graphics Research Group at Ohio State University, and later worked as a senior animator at Cranston/Csuri Productions. He joined Blue Sky Studios in 1998.

Donkin produced several Blue Sky Studios films, including *Robots* (2005), *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), *Rio* (2011), *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012) and *Rio 2* (2014). He received an Academy Award nomination for producing the short film *Gone Nutty* (2002). He later directed *The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild* (2022).

*Sources: catalog.afi.com, imdb.com, rio.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *INVINCIBLE* (2021), Fi1m 74, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md)
- *Rio* (2011), Fi1m 70, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/rio.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ice Age: Boiling Point* (2027), Director
- *The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild* (2022), Director
- *INVINCIBLE* (2021), series, Supervising Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md)
- *Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade* (2016), Producer
- *Ice Age: No Time for Nuts 4-D* (2015), Producer
- *Rio 2* (2014), Producer
- *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), Producer
- *Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2* (2011), Producer
- *Rio* (2011), Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/rio.md)
- *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), Producer
- *Surviving Sid* (2008), Producer
- *No Time for Nuts* (2006), Producer
- *Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty* (2005), Producer
- *Robots* (2005), Producer
- *Gone Nutty* (2002), Producer
- *Ice Age* (2002), Associate Producer
- *Bunny* (1998), Technical Advisor
- *Dinosaur Stuff* (1988), Director, Animation

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2004: Best Animated Short Film (nominated), for *Gone Nutty*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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